Allan Burns
The Munsters and
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. As a story editor on
He & She, he received an Emmy Award for comedy writing (alongside his longtime writing partner Chris Hayward), and he also earned an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay for the film
A Little Romance.
But it was the animation industry that first captured Burns’s imagination, and indeed it was there that his career began. Hired by producer Jay Ward in the early 1960s, he was closely involved with series including
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Dudley Do-Right, and
George of the Jungle. He also created Cap’n Crunch, the cereal mascot and star of countless animated commercials.